Duval County Public Schools has quietly pulled dozens of well-known books from school shelves under a state-mandated review, ...

On a night otherwise dedicated to the endangered state of free expression, honoree Ann Patchett asked those gathered for PEN ...

Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Egan and more writers will participate in the auction, which benefits PEN America’s Author Safety ...

As access to educational programs in America's prisons increase, groups like PEN America's Incarcerated Writer's Bureau and ...

Authors are staging their own protest amid an extraordinary week of action against Israel’s occupation of Gaza. In solidarity with a free Palestine, a group of 29 writers and translators sent a letter ...

The May 15 gala at the Museum of Natural History in New York City honored 'outstanding contributions in literature and the ...

Author Ann Patchett and film producer Jason Blum are among those who spoke at PEN America's annual gala, which raised more ...

Host B.J. Novak name-checked a number of authors and celebrities in his opening speech at the Pen America Literary Gala on ...

The Rutherford County Library Alliance and author Ann Patchett were honored with national awards for courage and activism ...

"What students can read in schools provides the foundation for their lives," says PEN America Eric Charbonneau/Getty; Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty; VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Book bans are sharply on the ...

On May 7, hundreds gathered at the Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village for Freedom to Write for Palestine, a gathering of writers who withdrew from PEN America's World Voices Festival and ...

Capping off a tumultuous spring, free expression nonprofit PEN America held its annual Literary Gala on May 16, with more than 650 people in attendance, at the American Museum of Natural History in ...